Crooked Timber - Habermas, democratic discourse, and class;

Letters From an American - the truths upon which our system rests;

Noahpinion - Xi Jinping entering his “Death of Stalin” phase;

Seeing the Forest - Iran failure shows what the 'Deep State' was FOR;

The Rude Pundit - Iran? The U.S. just needs to stop.

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